1876.] Anthropology. 435 
The most interesting communication in No. 3 of Correspondenz Blatt 
is the one by Herr von Seebach, on the hitherto discovered fossil Apes 
and their Relation to Mankind. 
Archivio per P Antropologia, with the exception of an original mem- 
oir upon the Anthropology of Idiots, is devoted entirely to matters of 
special interest to Italian anthropologists. The following special trea- 
tises may be of interest to the readers of the NATURALIST : — 
Zur Kentniss der Wirkung der Skoliopadie des Schiidels, A. Ecker, 
Braunschweig, 1876. The Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instru- 
ments in the South Kensington Museum, C. Engel. Das Salz. Dr. M. 
J. Schleiden, Leipzig. The Races of Mankind and their Civilization. 
E. B. Tylor, before the London Institution, March 23, 1876. L’An- 
thropologie, P. Topinard, Paris, 1876, 1 vol. 12mo, pp. xiv., 574. Die 
testen Feurzeuge, Dr. O. Brichner, Gæa, iii, 1876. - 
Revue Scientifique of April 1, 1876, gives an extended account of the 
discovery of an ossiferous cave of the polished stone age at Belfort, near 
Cravanche, France. The cave belongs to the Jurassic period. e 
floor is covered with stalagmites, to which no stalactites correspond, and 
they are arranged in a certain definite order, like series of cromlechs. 
The bones are found in the depressions between the stalagmites encased 
in the calcareous matter. This discovery is especially valuable, because 
few sepulchres of the polished-stone age have been found as yet in Eu- 
rope. 
, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute for April, 1876, in addi- 
tion to articles already reported in this magazine, has a complete index 
of all the papers in the following publications: Journal of the Anthropo- 
logical Institute previous to the current number; Journal and Transac- 
tions of the Ethnological Society ; Memoirs of the Anthropological Society 
of London. The Smithsonian Institution is preparing a full index of 
: all its publications, classified by subjects. ` 
' Le Compte Rendu de la Première Session du Congrés International des 
Américanistes, published at Paris under the editorship of Maisonneuve 
ie., comprises two octavo volumes of nearly four hundred pages 
each, In addition to the constitution and rules of the Société Améri- 
Caine de France, the rules of the International Congress, and the list of 
delegates, these volumes contain nearly all the papers read at the meet- 
; mg in Nancy. A wide field of discussion is covered, embracing essays 
"pon the Phænicians, Buddhists, Fou-Sang, the lost Atlantis, the voy- 
ages of the Northmen, and the discoveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth 
centuries ; upon the tribal characteristics, manners, and customs, cults, 
migrations, and languages of the various tribes ; and upon the antiquities 
th continents. Although much of the discussion is speculative or 
even fanciful, much of it is very profitable reading, and we do not hesi- 
to affirm that the study of aboriginal American history was really 
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